Nicholas Nevid

Nevid attended the University of Texas, where he was a member of the Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team[5] and the Nashville Aquatic Club.[6]

Among his most notable accomplishments as a breaststroke swimmer:

• winning two gold medals at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships in Berlin[7]
• winning two gold medals and one silver medal in the 1981 Universiade at Bucharest, Romania [8]
• breaking the American record in the 200 yard breaststroke[9][10]
• becoming a four-time College All-American Swimmer at the University of Texas[5]
• winning three gold medals at the 1981 USS Long Course Nationals[11]
• being a member of the University of Texas' 1981 NCAA Men's Swimming/Diving Championship-Team

Because of the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, he was unable to compete in the 1980 Olympics.

He coached swimming for one year at Auburn University; for one year with the Las Vegas Gold team, led by Olympic Gold Medalist Rowdy Gaines; for two years with the Columbus Aquatic Club in Columbus, Georgia; and for one year at Louisiana State University.

Nick attended Brookfield Central High School (Brookfield, Wisconsin); Brentwood Academy (Brentwood, Tennessee); and Austin High School (Austin, Texas), from which he graduated in 1978.

He earned a B.A. degree in biology from the University of Texas in 1983.[12]

In 1993, he earned a Ph.D. degree in physiology from Louisiana State University.[13][14]

Dr. Nick Nevid has raised marine foodfish in offshore aquaculture cages in the Bahamas and Panama. He also developed Proaquatix,[15] which was the second largest producer of marine ornamental fish in the world.

His research includes original work on biofouling prevention.[16]

Among his publications/patents:

• Circadian Neuroendocrine Regulation of Scale Allograft Reactions in Gulf Killifish, Fundulus Grandis
• "Prolactin signaling through stat proteins"
• "Base for propagating aquatic animals"
• "Nonphotic stimuli alter a day-night rhythm of allograft rejection in gulf killifish"
• "Timed daily administrations of hormones and antagonists of neuroendocrine receptors alter day-night rhythms of allograft rejection in the gulf killifish, Fundulus grandis"
• "A day-night rhythm of immune activity during scale allograft rejection in the gulf killifish, Fundulus grandis."
• "Annexin Gene Structure"
• "Time-dependent effects of daily thermoperiods, feeding, and disturbances on scale allograft survival in the gulf killifish, Fundulus grandis"
• "Biofouling prevention by induction heating"